Arguably, the primary tenant of fundamentalist Christianity is "the inerrancy Scripture"--that is, that The Holy Bible is divinely inspired and wholly and literally true in the plain sense of its words. Christian thought and learning in the West moved into the new Christian monasteries, the cathedral schools, and eventually, from the end of the twelfth century, into the newly created universities. The French aristocratic political philosopher, Alexis de Toucqueville, described individualism in terms of a kind of moderate selfishness that disposed humans to be concerned only with their own small circle of family and friends.

And of course, these freaks blame Christianity for all the world's problems. Yet he DID the very best he could in all aspects of his life. Explicit analogies to the Reformation have become commonplace not only among commentators but also among anticlerical activists, among victims' groups, and, significantly, among ordinary lay believers. In Christianity, God's grace is expressed through the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross for the redemption of human sin.

Number of victims unknown. [DO30] * 16th and 17th century Ireland. We Africans, however, who were being instructed by white people, never did anything like that ... Despite such a "downgrade" from official Church of Scientology estimates, it may be noted that in a recent large-scale independent survey of religious identification (NSRI, Barry Kosmin et al, City University of New York 1990), enough people in the United States named Scientology as religion that it was among the top 10 largest religions in the country, with more members than the Baha'i Faith, Sikhism or Neo-Pagan/Wiccan groups.

Thing and doing the other that these two men in power accomplish every single moment. The churches are independent organizations having a tradition and history of their own. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939. 1. Paul’s admonition that women keep silent in church…(208) There are numerous examples of women’s exclusion from acknowledged positions of religious authority from the seventeenth century to the present. (208) …illustrate the firmly rooted assumption that women were by nature unsuited to be members of the clergy. (208) …a religious movement whose beliefs and their practical working out gave women leadership status equal to that of men. (210) …prevented the denigration of women that often occurs in religions which stress the sinful nature of sexual relationships. (210) …represent the “female line” of divinity. (210) …claim divine approval of her own religious leadership as a woman. (210) …contributed to the unfolding of the divine plan. (211) …practice of celibacy and the granting of leadership roles to women. (212) …female spiritual leadership which would function equally with that of the males. (212) …practice gave women the opportunity to participate in the communal ownership of property, to have roles in their society other than that of wife and mother, and to participate equally with men in the spiritual leadership of their communities. (212-213) …must subject to her husband, who is the first; but when the man is gone, the right of government belongs to the woman: So is the family of Christ. (210-211) …leadership implies authority by default. (211) …”equally inconsistent would it be, to argue the uselessness of the mother in the natural birth, and rearing of the natural family, as it would be to argue the uselessness of the spiritual mother in the family of Christ: for the necessity of both are equally evident.”( 211) …male as cognitive and the female as affectional. (211) …the body was sinful and that its concupiscent tendencies must be curbed-a belief that is often detrimental to women aspiring to religious leadership. …women found opportunities for leadership. (213) From the beginning the role of medium was open to women, and, in fact, women were thought to be particularly suited to it. (213) …by the end of the nineteenth century there were….churches served by pastors, many of them women…(214) …concept of the divine seems to have benefited women by its insignificance. (214) The advantage for woman in this kind of by the way, impersonal God lay in the fact that she was not likely to be found wanting in qualification for roles of leadership because she did not sufficiently reflect the divine image. (214) …many of the mediums were women. (215) …the prevailing view was one which afforded women more freedom and approval to seek careers other than marriage, or else to function as a medium in addition to being married…(216) …the medium emphasized her femininity by insisting that she was not responsible for her actions, that she was controlled by higher powers. (217) …the women…the option to function as a medium was there if she wanted it and if she thought it was worth the price. (217) …who sought to step beyond the ordinarily prescribed roles of wife and mother. (214) …the role of medium was not a breaking away in every sense from the cultural stereotype of what a woman ought to be, as will become evident. (214) …redemption by a male incarnation of the deity. (214) …the husband rather than the wife had most of the legal advantages. (215) …the impossibility of escape, particularly for women, from a contract that was in no way a marriage of souls. (216) …she functioned as a religious professional in a society which rejected that as a suitable role for a woman, she was subject to accusations of immorality and stepping beyond her station. (217) …she enjoyed a certain measure of independence freedom from traditional female responsibilities, an income, even if small, and the adulation of audiences and followers. (217) … “ubiquity” of women in… “Not only was its most famous exponent a woman; scores of its lesser exponents were women, as founders, writers, preachers, teachers, healers. (217) … women lay primarily in its stress on self-help rather than helplessness, and on the possibility of healing without dependence on the dictates of doctor or clergy. (218) …incorporates the feminine as well as the masculine. (218) …affirms the feminine aspect of the divine. (219) Woman could see themselves, then, not as weak and helpless, but as reflecting the image of the divine feminine. (219) …the fact that in the early years women practitioners outnumbered men five to one. (219) In addition, the offices of reader and teacher were open to women. (219) …giving expression to a “higher concept of divine womanhood,” as well as providing an example of a female religious leader. (220) …evolved into a highly authoritarian structure, one which nonetheless gave a woman a place not usually afforded them by traditional Christianity. (220) Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science at a time when women were virtually excluded from positions of political, economic, or religious power. (218) Their influence in these areas was to be exerted obliquely through motherhood and family life. (218) …and a woman was expected to find fulfillment by a system of vicarious living through husband and children. (218) A woman’s life was one of physical and emotional dependence on others. (218) They did not need to interpret their relatively weak position in the world as a sign of God’s particular disfavor. (219) Nor was there any reason that women should be kept from full participation…because they did not sufficiently mirror the divine nature. (219) … “Human nature has bestowed on a wife the right to become a mother; but if the wife esteems not this privilege by mutual consent…(220) …teaching and the teaching of her students, that a woman cannot be an effective healer, if she really loves a man and be a true wife…(220) …assuming positions of leadership which were denied them in the mainstream religions. (224) …emphasis on total separation of women from the churches that is characteristic of a theologian like Mary Daly. (225) God pictured in wholly masculine images is not conducive to an understanding of the feminine as participating in the divine; that a doctrine of human nature as depraved through the Fall seems to be even more detrimental to women than to men; that an ordained male clergy is not likely to open its ranks willingly to women…(225) Females were afforded the ability to be spiritual leaders if they chose to follow certain religions other than Christianity.

This was a great sign of "the marvelous goodness and providence of God" to the Christians of course, e.g. the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote in 1634, as "for the natives, they are near all dead of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess." [SH109,238] * On Hispaniola alone, on Columbus visits, the native population (Arawak), a rather harmless and happy people living on an island of abundant natural resources, a literal paradise, soon mourned 50,000 dead. [SH204] * The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder, enslavement and Spanish raids. * As one of the culprits wrote: "So many Indians died that they could not be counted, all through the land the Indians lay dead everywhere.

The “investiture controversy” was typical of the structural difficulties at the feudal core of the system, because the bishops, as the principal officers of the church, were responsible for both its political and its property interests. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. The ex-pagan liked Paul's Jesus over Jesus the Jew. According to John Cornwell, this papal endorsement of Nazism helped seal the fate of Europe which makes it plausible that these Catholic prejudices bolstered aspects of Nazi anti-Semitism. [Cornwell, p. 28] The Concordat and the following Jewish persecutions resulted in the silence of the Pope and the bishops.

Thus, Tenrikyo was classified by the Japanese ministry of religion as a Shinto sect for about one hundred years. Their protest involves not heterodoxy so much as what one might be etymologically tempted to call paradoxy -- a feeling that one is somehow outside, set apart from, a religious system whose truth one cannot deny. We ask for one text, in which we are told, that God took human nature that he might make an infinite satisfaction to his own justice; for one text, which tells us, that human guilt requires an infinite substitute; that Christ's sufferings owe their efficacy to their being borne by an infinite being; or that his divine nature gives infinite value to the sufferings of the human.

This was not overtly Christian, but it was significant that Christian intellectuals had been included. For example, Traditionalist Catholics who reject some of the Vatican II reforms may identify themselves as conservative Christians. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 207-231. For renunciation of a religion, see Apostasy. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the "sun of God's" birthday on December 25th. While all members are considered ministers, an elder or overseer conducts services and usually gives a sermon on a Bible topic.

Journal for Scientific Study of Religion 36: 247-256. And I admit that my plate has been full as well. Uncle Neil (Neil Fullagar), nanny / childcare / teacher / early interventionist. According to the Society of Architectural Heritage Protection Jeddah and the Municipality of Jeddah, a long abandoned house in Al-Baghdadiyya district has never been an Anglican church, contrarily to the "“myth” that had spread on the Internet". We are astonished at the hardihood of those, who, with Christ's warnings sounding in their ears, take on them the responsibility of making creeds for his church, and cast out professors of virtuous lives for imagined errors, for the guilt of thinking for themselves.